New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-30
fP BOUSER'S EXPERIMENT

Fro,. IN, Ds'ron Efee Presa
WILL tho long agony il over and our pig 10 dead
one day las, fall Mr.. Bowser suddenly turned on me
Mrs Bowser, why don't we keep pisi "
Because have no pen, no place lot ono, anu
don't want the nuisance
In half "A day. and might ~ wei RAISE our own pork
AS TO buy u. The Kitchen stun you SNo a""y "oui'
TALKED and argued. but it was use. brought
ND our poor success with hens, but he chokcd mo OIL
withi
@Mrs Bowser. perhaps you may not KIN ow the diher-
onco Letwcen lean old heartbroken hen and choice
pg. but do and shall keep pig"
. We'll don't ask me to bother with IT,"
aNo ono intended to On the contrary hope you
Will Keen a. far away from him rs possible You can
also buy your own pork chops next winter
During the next three days Mr.. Bowser was pig
bnutpg and ponbuilding, aud at Length Terrible
souealne in the alley inio med mo that his chase
had been made. i went out after bit ana found a
Thin cadaycI Ous wildeyed beast, weighing about nifty
mn ,nds in the pen lie uttel ed q wooi - and made
snIing AT me "a looked oyeI and Nj. Bowsor came
lIom tho door and Ioared out;
What are yOu doing theIef 10 You WANT 10 scare
that pig to DEATH"
al was simply looking at him.
Well you simply keep away for 9wnle! mat rig
IL strange He's got to have Tune to 0o n rGan %n ANY
one knowing bran from broomsilchs Wouuht go rush
inc mn Ia pigpen ike that !"
q sbortborn. of course. You don't think I'd fool
oy.o,. my time on common pig, DO YOU
g tyLy never heard OF n shOrthorn pig before"
q Oh Won didn't There are a great many things
van never heard Of Mrs. Bowser, and probably never
will"
q Tim! OF conrso he il! If he was fat he couldn't
hold hall our kitchen stun
q Inst hear him take on"
a Go away with youl It's your voice that excites
bjmi Mrs Bowscr, II that pig bursts n blood vessel
on will be to blame tor It, and il will cost you rs in
cash !"
wont into the house and the pig seemed moro quiet
rt.Ih m m
b,scuit a rio OF cold beet, peanuts, grass, halt an
orance and a banana. When he came in he rubbed
his hands and chncked
q Seems almost like being on farm again ought
never TO have been anything but n farmer
We had scarcely finished supper when the pig began
IN soucal. Mr.. Bowsor went out and walked seven
,,res around the pen without being able to find any
thing wrong The pig had good bed and an abund-
of food but he stood In the middle OF the pen and
Kent M doleiuI squealing, and 1t was not until Mr.
ryscr kn ocked him down with fence picket that we
GO, an interval OF rest He squeaed from TO with
eevt break and when Mr. Bowser came home at tho
latter hour, he punched him with n hoe handle and
secured another respite we had just got to bed when
the doleiul music began again.
He's the uneasest pig ever saw" | ventured TO
observe, "and wonder you didn't get some other
breed
in a n your MOI
aThen don't give me any more talk When | want
your advice will ask tor It,
But is he to squeal all night
"Ii he wants TO- -
think he did lie got a little hoarse about o'clock
Ia the morning but he managed to make his voice
hoard All the same Mr. BOwser went out and led him
cut LOAF sugar aud Saratoga potatoes ana Tor
hour or two he stood In the corner OF the pen and
seemed buried In reflection. Then no suddenly ap.
clred in the back yard and rooted up eix dollars
worth OF new soddng and two beds OF flowers. and the
cook and | had no sooner got him into the pen than
he began squealing again. During the afternoon Mr
Bowser remained home and worked the ience-picket
racket so vigorously that by night the Dig got y into
his head that the less lac was heard from the better
The next day the animal got out wice, and 1t didn
take but twelve Of the neghbors TO get him back.
Alter the first night and from that to the night OF his
death. no -Aatsd hour and sQuealed tho next ~